long-read on Google's aggressive, monopolistic push to get publishers to adopt AMP, leading to lawsuits and distrust.
Speed Trap
Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
By David Pierce
Illustrations by Kristen Radtke
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit
AMP = Stupid Hubris.
fffffffffffffffucking AMP
@corlin
Waaaait wait. Publishers didn't trust Google EVER. Sued Google for a decade over the whole scanning every damn thing in sight (Books).
So yeah, AMP was DOA.